Professor David Keen

Biography

David Keen received his doctorate from Oxford. His study of the political economy of famine was published by Princeton University Press as The Benefits of Famine. He is also the author of The Economic Functions of Violence in Civil Wars (Oxford University Press) and The Best of Enemies: Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone (James Currey/Palgrave Macmillan, scheduled for 2004). He formerly worked as a researcher, consultant and journalist.

Research interests and areas of supervision

Conflict in Sierra Leone

The nature of contemporary civil warfare

The use and abuse of information in the disaster zone

The political and economic functions of disasters

Selected recent publications

Keen, David. Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars is More Important than Winning Them Yale University Press, 2012

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